Category: <span>Funding</span>

Processes Best PhD Thesis Award 2026

Closing date: 31 July 2026 The journal Processes is inviting applications for its Best PhD Thesis Award. This award aims to recognize early career researchers for outstanding PhD theses in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, materials, or related process/systems engineering research. Applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee …

Royal Society – Newton International Fellowships

Closing date:Ā  15 March 2026 The Newton International Fellowship (NIF) programme provides support for outstanding non-UK ECR applicants to conduct research in the UK.Ā  The programme seeks to assist those who wish to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining international experience. The fellowships enable …

Energy Catalyst round 11 – early stage (and other strands)

Closing date: 25 Mar 2026.Ā  See HERE for details. The aim of this competition is to accelerate the innovations needed to create new or improved clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Indo-Pacific region and Latin America. This is to create a just and inclusive energy transition and …

Royal Academy of Engineering – Enterprise Fellowships

Closing date: 16 Feb 2026 The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) Enterprise Fellowship is a twelve-month programme that supports talented researchers and graduates to transform innovations into disruptive spinouts and graduate startups. The programme is aimed at: University researchers wishing to spin out from UK universities and research institutes Recent …

IBIC Impact Acceleration Funding Webinar & Panel Discussion

Date: Thur 29 Jan 2026, 12-13:00 UK The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst (IBIC) is a Ā£5 million EPSRC place-based initiative that brings together north-west England’s industrial biotechnology community to accelerate knowledge exchange, skills development, and innovation.Ā  IBIC is led by Prof Aline Miller at the University of Manchester’s Institute of …

EPSRC Reimagining Circularity – outline stage

Closing Date: 15 Jan 2026 EPSRC is inviting applications to develop a NetworkPlus which builds new capacity, strengthens community and enhances research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in built environment, textiles or data and metrics. The ā€˜Plus’ element should be used imaginatively to accelerate impact in your …

Leverhulme Research Grants – outline stage closing 27 Feb 2026

Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grants are for researchers based at universities, institutions of higher education or registered charities with university-equivalent research capacity, to undertake an innovative and original research project. Grants may be held for up to five years. The maximum grant value is Ā£500k. The grant provides research staff …

JSPS Short Term Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowships

Deadline: Mon 19 Jan 2026 at 09:00 UK The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (Short Term) provides the opportunity for short-term visits for UK, European, North American and Canadian researchers ordinarily based in the UK or Ireland to carry out cooperative research …

KTP Call 2025-6

Closing date:Ā  4 Feb 2026 UK registered academic institutions, research and technology organisations or Catapults can apply for a share of up to Ā£10 million to fund innovation projects with businesses. The project must align with one of eight sectors in the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy: Advanced Manufacturing Clean Energy …

BBSRC 2025 Transformative Research Technologies

Deadline: 11 Feb 2026 This funding opportunity aims to support the development of cutting-edge enabling research technologies, which have the potential for transformative impact and are essential to sustaining the vibrancy of bioscience discovery research in the UK. This includes bioinformatics tools and computational approaches to the biosciences. These developments …

JSPS Postdoc Fellowship Call for Humanities and Social Sciences

Application Deadline: 10 Dec 2025 This fellowship is an opportunity for those in our Environmental Biotechnology and Social Sciences WG (EBSS WG), and for other EBNet members with an interest in social sciences or other arts and humanities aspects. It allows researchers based outside Japan to conduct collaborative work with …

UK-Ukraine Horizon Europe Initiative: project ideas available now

The next phase of the UK–Ukraine Horizon Europe collaboration initiative is now open. Following a nationwide call, Ukrainian universities have submitted project ideas designed to foster academic cooperation, strengthen research partnerships, and stimulate innovation exchange with UK higher education institutions. These ideas are a milestone in joint efforts to build …

Horizon Europe ERA 2026 – info and online brokerage events

Dates: 11 and 17 Dec 2025, online On 11 Dec 2025 an online European Commission Info Day will present the topics in the Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA) Work Programme 2026-2027.Ā  Call types will include both Coordination & Support and Research & Innovation actions. On 17 …